Meteorologist Jim Cantore with the Weather Channel is not only covering the 155 mph winds whipping through Florida from Hurricane Michael, but he also managed to attract attention by both narrowly avoiding being speared by a flying 2x4 and saving a fellow reporter from ferocious winds.

While reporting Wednesday at the shoreline of Panama City Beach, video showed the Category 4 storm serving up what looked to be a large piece of wood toward Cantore — sending it end-first towards the meteorologist's head.

Cantore broke off mid-sentence to dodge the piece of wood before moving away from the shore, closer to a pillar, presumably to block some of that wind and further debris being thrown his way.

Cantore was also credited with helping rescue fellow reporter and NBC correspondent, Kerry Sanders, who was out at the same stretch of shoreline reporting on the storm. Footage showed Sanders being almost knocked off his feet due to the high winds and Cantore heading over to assist him.

Cantore is a well-known figure in reporting major storms to the point that his presence has become associated with extreme weather. Before Michael made landfall, the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office in Florida issued a joking trespass warning for Cantore, and wrote, "Everyone knows what's in store when Jim Cantore shows up. So we issued a little notice. lol."

More than 375,000 people along the Gulf Coast were asked to evacuate before Hurricane Michael hit, and winds extended up to 45 miles from its center. Rainfall was predicted to reach up to a foot, and the hurricane was labeled as the third-most powerful hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland, according to its internal barometric pressure (behind an unnamed Labor Day storm in 1935 and Camille in 1969).